Events from the year 1558 in Ireland.
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Incumbent edit
- Monarch: Mary I (until 17 November), then Elizabeth I
Events edit
- November 17 – the Protestant Elizabeth I succeeds as Queen of England and Ireland upon the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement follows.[1]
- Sorley Boy MacDonnell obtains lordship of the clan territory in Antrim from James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg.[2]
Births edit
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Deaths edit
- Autumn – Richard St Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth, nobleman and soldier (b. c.1510)
- October 27 – James FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond.
- November 17 – Mary I, Queen of Ireland (b. 1516)
- Thomas Butler, 1st Baron Cahir.
- Matthew O'Neill, 1st Baron Dungannon was assassinated
- Colla MacDonnell, Lord of Islay and Kintyre (Cantire), died at Kinbane Castle
References edit
- ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. pp. 59–60.